Provides a very simple, but highly extensible method of extracting the creation date and time from a media file (any file really). The base module comes with support for JPEG files that store the creation date in the exif header.

Plugins can be written to support any file format. See the Media::DateTime::JPEG module for an example.

If no plugin is found for a particular file (or the plugin returns a false vale) the file creation date as specified by the O/S is used.